Full-stack web developer with a passion for the front-end. Unrepentant caffeine addict.

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Whilst it doesn't provide an answer to the 'what next' question, I've always thought Douglas Crockford summed up very well why programming is not for everyone:
[Programmers] like to think we spend most of our time power typing. "Yeah, I'm being productive, I'm writing programs!" But we don't. We spend most of our time looking into the abyss, saying "My God, what have I done? How am I ever going to make this work?" Once we figure it out, we forget that we did all of that ... A normal person, once they've looked into the abyss, would say I'm done, this is stupid, I'm going to go do something else. But not us, because there's something really wrong with us. -- http://transcriptvids.com/v/taaEzHI9xyY.html

I get a surprising number of emails from career programmers who have spent some time in the profession and eventually decided it just isn't for them. Most recently this: I finished a computer science degree last year, worked about a year in the Java EE stack. I liked requirements engineering ...